Verifying cloud services: present and future

  • Authors:
  • Sara Bouchenak;Gregory Chockler;Hana Chockler;Gabriela Gheorghe;Nuno Santos;Alexander Shraer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Grenoble -- LIG, Grenoble, France;IBM Research and Royal Holloway, University of London;IBM Research, Haifa, Israel;SnT, University of Luxembourg;MPI-SWS, Germany;Google, Mountain View, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2013

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.02

Visualization

Abstract

As cloud-based services gain popularity in both private and enterprise domains, cloud consumers are still lacking in tools to verify that these services work as expected. Such tools should consider properties such as functional correctness, service availability, reliability, performance and security guarantees. In this paper we survey existing work in these areas and identify gaps in existing cloud technology in terms of the verification tools provided to users. We also discuss challenges and new research directions that can help bridge these gaps.